Etymology

Kinhu

K5I1N1H4U1
Mandarin 金湖
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from金湖
  2. English todayKinhu

From the Nanking court dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金湖 (Jīnhú), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.